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  • Brushing up

    Posted by KE8HNK on 2024-03-15 at 12:27

    With all the tornadoes and severe weather here in Ohio how many of you not only practice collectively as a group (A.R.E.S Auxcomm, RACES,CERT, Etc.) but also as a family or neighborhood and or personally to sharpen your skills. I run a storm spotter team and we even practice during the winter and do a after action report, I also run scenarios with our family and see how different situations pan out.

    KE8HNK replied 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Jim

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    2024-03-15 at 19:10
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    So, I belong to a group called MCACS Montgomery County (MD) Auxiliary Communication Service along with another HC member/elmer @kn3u . I will tell you this, for us, the hardest thing about drills has always been finding people who want to run them. After a while it’s the same usual suspects. Also, to be transparent, even I am not as participative as I should be. We have hospital drills, one of which is a ten minute drive from me, and yet I don’t participate as often as I should.

    In short, I commend you for your diligence. We need more people like you.

  • KE8HNK

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    2024-03-18 at 11:04
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    With all of the stuff going on in the world we need to be not only practicing and planning for our groups and EMA’s, but our families as well. Like I had mentioned in a previous post some do not like to use radios but accept using the GMRS radio, every time we have a power outage (happens every so often) I use it to not only test equipment but to test plans, call trees and give others a chance to see how something works (or doesn’t). We never rise to the occasion but sink to the level of our training.

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